The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-21
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GdVG7ace.
GOVERNOR FORAKER has issued q
proclamation designating Thursday
(today) April 81, as Arbor Day."


proclamation designating Thursday
(today) April 81, as Arbor Day."
LOUISVILLE CoURIER-JoURNAL:- II
Who takes care of the Kansas baby |
while ma, pa, and the hired girl are
at the polls?
V. G. HILL & Co.'S large planine |
mill, at Wooster, was burned on tn.
morning of the 18th inst. Loss, $25,
600; insurance, 81 500.
SENATOR BECK is positive in his |
belief that Cleveland and Allison will
be pitted against each other in the
Presidential race of 1888.
Hon. A. ]. WEAVER, ex-Congress
man from the Lincoln, Neb., district
died at bis home in Falls City, at
O'Clock Monday evening last.
A TELEGRAM from Lob don the 18th
with $50 passengers on board, was los
off Rouifacio, Corsica. Only SO wer'
saved.
DIR. J. w. HOFFMAN, of the Bureau
of American Ethnology, has bet Il
named by the King of Portugal a
Chevalier of the Order of st. James,
one of the most ancient Orders of
Christendom.
THE Democratic State Central Com =
mittee will meet in Columbus, May
10, to fix the time and place for hold
ing tie State Convention to nominat.
candidates for Governor and State
officers.
THE boycott of the Akron butchers
on Aimour's meats has been broken
and now the Akronians can wrestle
with the problem in masticatiOn, as
to the amount of jaw power required
on Chicago or Ohio tenderloins.
Our of the thirteen samples of "Toi
let Cream" warranted to beauti' J
the complexion, }" analy zed by Wash
ington chemist, every one contained
stuff certain to ruin the face after
years use, and some of them Wei
highly poisonous.
A Hot SPRINGS, Ark; dispatch G
the 18th inst, announces that Majo
John +. Blaine, Paymaster in the
g. army, and brother to Hon. Jamt
G. Blaine, is lying at the point {
death at the U. s. Army and Nav
Hospital there.
A CONDUCTOR of an emigrant trsi
on the b. & o. railroad had a decidec
ly squally trip the other day. He II
ports that between Bellaire and NJ
Vernon the air was made vocal by tt
advent of nine newbor babes b
tween the two stations.
A LONDON dispatch of the 18th sa,
that DIR. Parker will deliver eulOg
on Henry Ward Beecher. June "a l.
will preach a number of times
Brooklyn. aud subsequently deliv
several lectures at other points, befo
his return to England.
J.. MCGRATH's wall paper hous
Chicago, said to be the largest in u
country, was totally destroyed by d
on the morning of the 18th inst IT
stock, estimated at from $40O .0)0
$500, 600, was an entire loss, with ,
insurance of only $50, 500. Loss .
building, $s5, COO; insurance, $39 on
One fireman was killed, and anOth
had his leg broken.
The wholesale robberries by t
train men on the Pan Handle bran
of the Pennsylvania Company, is Il
most gigantic system of plunder ev
thorities may consider themselves ft
tunate, the gang did not carry off t
rails and sell them for old iron. 1t
suspected that other branches of t
Pennsylvania system are honeycom
ed with the same kind of rOtteAnel
and they are being subjected to t
most rigid investigation.
AN oath-bound band of NihilisI
assassins, numbering fifty four, wi
headquarters in Chicago, is report
to have been recently unearthed.
is divided into six groups of nine mel
bers each. 1t is formed for the pu
pose of wreaking vengeance in ca
all hope of saving the lives of t
condemned Anarchists is lost. 1t
thought that one of their numbe
acting upon the orders of his grou
made the attempt on the life of Repl
sentative Bailey, by reason of his 6
ton in regard to the Neebe funeral.
THE late President Arthur's brio
brac and paintings were sold at aucti
on the 18th inst. AS will be see
none of the articles brought fabulo
prices: A Swiss inkstand, once ow
ed by General Winfield Scott, broug
So: a painting of General Sheridan
horse, Rienzi, $l2 SO; portrait of r.
coe Conklipg, $4, and an antique leat
er bible, SIS. The following paintin
in oil were sold: "The Student
S1s so; Aqueduct Bridge" 500: "F
re Homo,n $40; Sonambula." 81
"Coast Scene," SIS; "Nut Gath'
ers." SIT; Madonna" $l1, and
model of the United States steam
u. 8. Grant, Sc.
GOV. HILL, of New York, has '
toed the Crosby high license bill !
Gently enacted by the Republican le
;slature of the State, for the dout